Nick Landess no longer a Poke...

Wed Sep 16, 2009 8:32 am

From the Laramie paper:

"Landess gone — Junior walk-on place-kicker and punter Nick Landess, who has been plagued this fall with a groin injury, has left the team."

Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:16 am

If he's no better than McCoy or Scott, then good riddance. We used to be known for having elite kickers, now we have guys that wouldn't be able to walk on to a D-II school. Pathetic.

Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:56 am

Did Landess ever really kick for the Pokes?

Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:33 pm

Nick got about 5 yards more on his kick-offs than the current kickers. Too bad he couldn't get over injuries this fall. JUST GUESSING, but as a walk on its a lot of work in addition to school if you're pretty sure you won't get another shot at kicking until next fall.....when I'm sure DC will bring in some boomers.

Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:37 pm

Dread_Pirate_Cowboy wrote:Nick got about 5 yards more on his kick-offs than the current kickers. Too bad he couldn't get over injuries this fall. JUST GUESSING, but as a walk on its a lot of work in addition to school if you're pretty sure you won't get another shot at kicking until next fall.....when I'm sure DC will bring in some boomers.

I swear we had a new guy kicking off on Saturday. It was a guy with the last name Watts, who is a walk-on. I wonder what happened to Scott?

Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:23 pm

JimmyDimes wrote: I swear we had a new guy kicking off on Saturday. It was a guy with the last name Watts, who is a walk-on. I wonder what happened to Scott?

yeah i remember seeing that, and he kicked it way short....worse than quite a few high school kickers ive seen that i thought were bad.

Wed Sep 16, 2009 2:06 pm

Landess was the strongest leg we had on the team. Sorry to see him go. I don't know how serious the injury was but something more had to be going on for him to just leave the team like this. If you guys remember last year Landess took over all the kicking duties after the Tennessee game.

To bad he wasn't healthy this year as he can get kickoffs to the end zone. Whoever kicked off during the Texas game was worst than Jake Scott and I had never heard of him.

Wed Sep 16, 2009 2:06 pm

Another interesting change is Brandon Stewart is now the #3 RB on the depth chart.

Wed Sep 16, 2009 4:01 pm

Ok.. I have a question. Are you telling me that there isn't a kid going to school at UW that maybe plays soccer and has kicked before, that isn't on the team? ie(kind of like that kid at Texas Tech last year that won a contest and kicked the rest of the year for them). There has to be somebody down there that can kick, at least for the rest of the year. Maybe DC should have an open tryout to see if there is somebody. Bet you would be surprised!!

Thu Sep 17, 2009 8:45 am

7220Fan wrote:Ok.. I have a question. Are you telling me that there isn't a kid going to school at UW that maybe plays soccer and has kicked before, that isn't on the team? ie(kind of like that kid at Texas Tech last year that won a contest and kicked the rest of the year for them). There has to be somebody down there that can kick, at least for the rest of the year. Maybe DC should have an open tryout to see if there is somebody. Bet you would be surprised!!

You are probably right...there surely is somebody. Maybe even one of the soccer twats.

Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:30 am

We need to go the way that the movie Necessary Roughness did.